2/24/2012

Scholarship be given to anyone based on merit

No matter where a scholarship comes from, nationality should not factor into the decision of who receives it, says Member of Parliament (MP) for Tampines GRC Baey Yam Keng.
"Whether they are a GLC (government-linked company), the government or a private company, they all want good people to work for them," he told Yahoo! Singapore in an interview on Thursday.’

Would any country go around giving scholarship to anyone regardless of his nationality? Is this the road Singapore is taking, using taxpayer’s money to give scholarship to anyone from any country and not to its own citizens? Whose money, and who should decide how the money shall be spent, to the children of citizens or to the children of someone, somewhere far away, that have nothing to do with us?

How many of you think this is the way to go? To me, personally, is damn stupid. You don’t take the taxpayer’s money and throw it around the world. Is Singapore a charitable organisation, a church for the people of the world? Come one and all, we will pay for your education if you are talented. Our citizen’s children that are not talented do not deserve to be given scholarships.

We have thousands of students who are straight As and definitely deserving of scholarships unless their straight As are unworthy, useless or fake. That cannot be. Their straight As came from our world class education system. Now I have great doubts.

And they are not deserving but students from the far corners of the world are deserving. What talking cock!

Why are our thousands of straight A students undeserving of scholarships?

Like I have said several times before: just because you were expelled from your mother's chow chee bye -- which happened to be in Singapore territory at the time of "expulsion" -- doesn't give you any "special rights".

Singapore is a meritocracy. You want something, just make sure you are first good at what you do -- otherwise shut the fuck up and go and become good first.

Giving scholarships based on birth-right is no different from UMNO policies in Malaysia which give Bumiputras more rights than other Malaysians.

Every year we have a few thousand straight As students and only a few hundred scholarships were given. And we are giving so many scholarships from third world countries where we don't have a clue how their school and grading systems are.

We have plenty of deserving straight A students waiting for these scholarships. And they are the children of taxpayers. There is no death of academic talents among Sinkies. It is only some Sinkies that rather called foreigners talent and rubbishing our own talents as non talents.

Yes it is the right of Sinkies to demand that national resources be allocated to our own people instead of some rubbish from unknown backgrounds.

Why the fuck are you trying to convince me? I'm not convinced. I fully support the idea of SINGAPORE BEING A MERITOCRACY. I am a Singaporean, so FUCK YOU redbean -- I can also make my "opinion" known, and defend it.

By taking your position you are promoting the idea of a welfare state, that just because you are born on Singapore soil gives you "special rights" (as if you are handicapped) in the theatre of ACADEMIC COMPETITION.

Sorry lah. I fully support the MP. Thank fucking god that he at least HAS THE BALLS to come out and defend the free enterprise, meritocracy system.

Wow you speaking like some party. A few scholarship for our children instead of foreigners and we become welfare state. Ask a few dollars and you will claim we will bankrupt the country. Ask for the return of our CPF savings and the country will sink.

This scholarship for foreign students sounds so ridiculous and moronic that I can hardly talk about it without wincing.

You see, the people who reaps from these scholarships are the countries whom these scholars come from. After the bond, the home country will ensure that these 'creme la crop' comes back home. Which countries in the world wants their scholars or top students to work and contribute to other countries? Maybe exception for Singapore.

It is basically using taxpayer's monies to freely give to other countries who will benefit from them.

Sometimes I wonder if my ministers really think about the implications and the effect of their policies.

I think many sinkies are pissing mad about this especially parents who have to cough up so much money for their children's education when the money was given to foreigners in such big numbers.

As a country's contribution to help other countries, a number of 30 or 40 students or even 100 could be acceptable. To go in the thousands and spending millions while our own people suffered for it will definitely make the people angry.

It all voice down to sg Chinese fucking but not reproducing, and the papies found out that it is actually cheaper to import FT(Talent & Trash) than to produce to maintain the %%%, thus the current shit hole for all of us....

That's why I lost4ever since 911 and the papies open the immigration flood gate...

Only in Singapore we treat FTs and foreigners with red carpet. That is another FIRST in the whole world. Remember the curry issue? We have not forgotten abt that.

Of late, I notice the PM is sort of “lame duck!” He doesn’t give one (certainly me) the impression of an decisive general in charge. He is shifting his stands and views too often. Not much of decisiveness. Procrastination esp Hougang by election issue, transport, immigration etc. His MPs one after another ie Baey is the latest one also seem to be losing focus and talking nonsense. No clear direction at all. This is very disturbing. Doesn’t bode well for us. Sigh … Where’s the talent despite being highest paid politicians in the entire civilized world?

Using your might to sue and threaten those innocent bloggers who express their own views as scare tactics will NEVER win you respect at all. Instead it will create more bitterness and hatred leading to more division and cynicism!

Don’t forget that the clock is ticking. By 2026, it may be too late if it carry on like this. The time bomb (figuratively), will surely explode!

Off course scholarships must be based on merit. It shld be merit for our citizens! I'm NOT saying we don't give to foreigners. But NOT to such ridiculous extent like a Santa Clause! Why shld we? We can't even take card of our old citizens - they are bending their backs collecting dirty plates and cartons or rubbish! Our own ordinary students keep in paying more n more school fees. We can't even give our tertiary students subsidized fares. And here we have a govt throwing money to foreigners! They don't appreciate and turn around calling us "dogs!" Then we got an MP telling us to "reflect" on ourselves!

Hey WTF? Where in earth do we get idixxs in the govt? You tell me? You see for yourself. Go and sue us for speaking the truth!

Hi Veritas, you must not give up your blog. Keep posting and keep going. Confucious said, whatever you are doing, do not stop. The moment you stop it is over. The blog or internet allows us to speak to the world. There will be people with you or against you. Between black and white there will be a very big range of grey.

Anon 7:22, you said it right and simple. Whoever wants to give scholarship to the whole world, please use your own money. The taxpayers money is not your grandfather's money.

The govt is accountable to the people, to serve the people, not to serve the interests of foreign talents. Instead of spending our money on our children, it is spending on other countries children. What good really comes out of it?

Gintai, our children have been shortchanged. I hope the govt will make an explanation on why so much money were spent on foreigners instead of our children and the real return to our country.

It is unacceptable to deprive our people, the oldies of more charity and our children from more scholarship.

Anon 10:29I'm definitely with you. I think many are with you. We are not alone! Yes, we will deal with it. The govt can do what it like and we are free to choose who we want. I won't choose a Santa Claus for sure.

Please open your farking eyes and ask yourself...isn't the PAP living off the people of Singapore...Aren't they themselves living on welfare...what about those pension schemes, super cheap medical benefits, body guards etc ... all paid by the people of Singapore...

So how...are you really that farking stupid or worst...really leetated by LKY and his cronies huh...

Fark you understand parasite! What leecritocracy shit you yapping about...

redbean, this CCB matilda, must be a parasitic PR who suffers from a serious brain disease called Fuckolosis, a perverted sick animal who gets withdrawal symptoms if he doesnt use the F word & enjoys being arse-fucked by equally perverted nincompoops.To say matilda's character is rotten sewage is an insult to sewage! Serves no purpose responding to sewage.. just send shit-matilda to the sewage works.. at least fertilizer is useful!

In all my postings, one of my key principles is to avoid tarnishing anyone personally, and the least for indiscretion in their private live...

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